From Heritage to Horizon: The Evolution and Innovation of New Securonix To Become 6X Leader in Gartner MQ for SIEM
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From Heritage to Horizon: The Evolution and Innovation of New Securonix To Become 6X Leader in Gartner MQ for SIEM
By Kash Shaikh, Chief Executive Officer
When Gartner released the 2025 Magic Quadrant for SIEM this week, I took a moment to pause and reflect. For the sixth year in a row, Securonix is recognized as a Leader. Milestones like this don’t happen by accident. They’re the result of relentless effort, bold decisions, and an unwavering belief in the direction we chose.
What makes this year especially meaningful is what stands alongside it: our leadership in Gartner Peer Insights. The voices that matter most, our customers, named us a Customers’ Choice Leader.
Analysts and customers don’t always see the world the same way. Being recognized by both is rare, and it validates something simple and profound: our strategy works on paper and in practice. In fact, we’re the only SIEM vendor to hold both leadership positions.
This moment is about more than recognition. It’s a chance to look back at how we’ve evolved, how we’ve innovated, and where we go next.
Evolution: Building on Strength, Making Bold Bets
Our story began in 2009 with UEBA, User and Entity Behavior Analytics, when most threat detection remained signature-based. Back then, security meant writing static rules and hoping you knew what to look for. We believed there was a smarter path. We used advanced machine learning to establish behavioral baselines, detect deviations, and surface the threats that traditional tools routinely missed. That early conviction became our identity: advanced analytics at the core of security operations.
Innovating with advanced machine learning was the foundation on which Securonix was built, way before AI and machine learning became cool. That DNA still runs through everything we do today. It taught us that the best security outcomes come not from volume of data alone, but from insight, turning signals into understanding.
From that foundation, we led another transition in the SIEM market: moving SIEM to the cloud as a true SaaS platform. Many questioned whether cloud-native SIEM could scale, perform, or earn enterprise trust. We stayed the course, building on AWS and integrating Snowflake as our data lake because we believed cloud was not only the right platform for growth, but also the right platform to deliver the speed, flexibility, and economics modern security demands. That decision didn’t just age well; it set the pace others are now racing to match.
The New Securonix: Customer-Obsessed, Outcome-Driven
In the last two years, we’ve further evolved the company to focus beyond technology while continuing to innovate and lead the market. We made customer experience our obsession, not a slogan, a discipline. Every deployment, every service interaction, every support ticket became an opportunity to prove we’re not just a vendor but a partner in outcomes. That discipline-built trust. Trust strengthened renewals. And renewals fueled a virtuous cycle of feedback and improvement.
“As one of the world’s largest private banks, trust is the foundation of everything we do,” said Sameer Ratolikar, Chief Information Security Officer, HDFC Bank. “At our massive scale, cybersecurity is integral to customer satisfaction and business performance.”
“In partnership with Securonix, we’ve modernized our SOC to process over 1.3 million events per second using Data Pipeline Manager through an open architecture and advanced analytics. Their AI-driven innovations have strengthened security, enhanced visibility, and streamlined regulatory compliance.”
Innovation: Leading Into the Future
But leadership is not secured by evolution alone. True leadership requires continued product innovation. Thinking beyond the current state to reimagine what’s possible.
In the last two years, we have also started investing heavily in agentic AI solutions. To build out modular Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) Agents that mark a revolution in autonomous security operations. These specialized, decision-capable agents are designed to perform high-impact jobs to be done (JTBD) across the threat detection, investigation, and response (TDIR) lifecycle. These intelligent security agents represent the future of security operations: autonomous, explainable, human-aligned and ready to scale with the threat landscape.
We are pioneering Agentic AI to fundamentally transform how SOC environments operate. For too long, analysts have been overrun by noise, slowed by manual investigation, and frustrated by tools that don’t work together. Our vision is different: to empower SOC teams with intelligent agents that automate the routine, accelerate the complex, and free human talent to focus on the threats that matter most.
The results speak for themselves. Alberta Health shared their story in VentureBeat earlier this year: with Securonix, they reduced false positives by 90%. That is not an efficiency gain at the margins, that is redefining what’s possible. Analysts who once spent hours chasing alerts now have time to investigate real threats. Organizations that once struggled to keep up are now operating with resilience and confidence.
We also introduced a Data Pipeline Agent to tackle one of SIEM’s most persistent challenges: data economics. Security data is growing exponentially, but CISOs budgets are not. Legacy models force painful tradeoffs between cost and visibility. The Data Pipeline Agent changes the equation by optimizing how data is ingested, stored, and analyzed. We help customers drive down storage costs dramatically, while expanding the volume of data they can make actionable. It’s not just cost savings, it’s the ability to see more, know more, and act faster without being trapped by budget constraints.
Together, agentic AI, data pipeline optimization, and our advanced ML analytics signal a new horizon for the SOC: one that’s intelligent, efficient, and built to scale with the business. This isn’t an incremental improvement; it’s a redefinition of the value security operations can deliver.
Our First Acquistion, ThreatQuotient, certainly not the last:
Evolution to the “new Securonix” also meant inorganic expansion. With our first acquisition, ThreatQuotient, we integrated a leading external Threat Intelligence Platform (TIP) directly into Securonix. In security operations, context is power. By bringing TIP into the fold, we give customers the internal and external intelligence needed to respond faster and with greater confidence.
Put it all together, our UEBA heritage, the cloud bet, an obsession with customer outcomes, innovation with agentic AI, data pipeline optimization, the addition of TIP, and a consistent strategy emerges: SIEM as the foundation of a modern SOC platform. It’s precisely the direction Gartner now cites as the future of the market.
Looking Ahead
So, what does it mean to be a Leader six years in a row? It means our foundation is strong enough to withstand change, and our culture is bold enough to embrace it. It means we’re trusted not only by analysts who write reports, but by customers who live with the consequences of every breach attempt.
Most importantly, it means we cannot stand still. Leadership isn’t a trophy; it’s a responsibility. We’ll innovate with purpose, not novelty. We’ll ensure enterprises are breach-ready, CISOs are board-ready, and security operations are AI-powered.
To our customers, partners, and employees: thank you. This milestone belongs to you. Together, we’ll keep pushing the boundaries of what modern security operations can achieve.
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Kash Shaikh
CEO, Securonix
